One of the most common human fears is scarcity. Many people are afraid of not having enough of what they need or want, and so they are always (1) to get to a point (2) they would finally have enough.
Alan and Linda always dreamed of living "the good life". (3) from poor working-class families, they married young and set out to fulfill their (4) goal of becoming wealthy. They both worked very hard for years, (5) a small fortune, so they could move from their two-bedroom home to a (n) (6) seven- bedroom home in the most upscale neighborhood. They focused their energies (7) accumulating all the things they believed (8) abundance: membership in the local (9) country club, luxury cars, designer clothing, and high-class society (10) . No matter how much they accumulated, (11) , it never seemed to be enough. They were unable to erase the deep fear of scarcity both (12)
A. crashed
B. scattered
C. ruined
D. descended
Large, multinational corporations may be the companies whose ups and downs seize headlines. But to a far greater extent than most Americans realize, the economy’s vitality depends on the fortunes of tiny shops and restaurants, neighborhood services and factories. Small businesses, defined as those with fewer than 100 workers, now employ 60 percent of the workforce and expected to generate half of all new jobs between now and the year 2000. Some 1.2 million small firms have opened their doors over the past 6 years of economic growth, and 1989 will see an additional 200000 entrepreneurs striking off on their own.
Too many of these pioneers, however, will blaze ahead unprepared. Idealists will overestimate the clamor(大声的要求) for their products or fail to factor in the competition. Nearly everyone will underestimate, often fatally, the capital that success requires. Midcareer executives, forced by a takeover or a restructuring to quit the corporation and find another way
A. sufficient preparation for his new business
B. the ups and downs of the transnational corporations
C. about 2400 small enterprises alive
D. the number of workers
E. about 2310 small enterprises alive
F. the careful thought about the small enterprises
G. the fate of the small businesses such as small plants and restaurants
Every night she listened to her father going around the house, locking the doors and windows. She listened, the back door closed; she could hear the fastener of the kitchen window’s click, and the restless pad of his feet going back to try the front door. It wasn’t only the outside doors he locked; he locked the empty kitchen too. He was looking something out, but obviously it was something capable of entering into his first defenses. He raised his second line all the way up to bed.
In fourteen years, she thought unhappily, the house will be his; he had paid twentyfive pounds down and the rest he was paying month by month as rent. "Of course," he was in the habit of saying, "I’ve improved the property." "Yes," he repeated, "I’ve improved the property," looking around for a nail to drive in, a weed to uproot. It was more than a sense of property; it was a sense of honesty. Some people who bought their homes th
A. Tenseness.
B. Peace.
C. Nervousness.
D. Happiness.
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